Abstract
Robert Kagan is a neo-conservative American scholar and political commentator. He was born on September 26th 1958 in Athens. After graduating from Yale University in 1980, he earned a Masters from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a PhD from American University in Washington.
Robert Kagan is the co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (where he is director of the US Leadership Project). He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1983, Kagan was foreign policy advisor to New York Representative and future Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp. Then, he worked at the State Department from 1984 to 1988 and was a speech-writer for Secretary of State George P. Shultz (1984-1985). He has also been foreign-policy advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney.
